Emergency brake



Aug 350, 1925?" H. EVERETT EMERGENCY BRAKE '7, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Original Filed Nov.

HEJERETT EMERGENCY BRAKE Original iled Nov. '2, 1922 2 Sheets-$heet 2 fiarryE'rereit Inventor,

ha z member fully effective as a stopping Patented Aug. 30, 927.

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' i EMERGENCY Bimini. a

' Application flle d November 7, 1'922,fseria1110.5995. 'ne edeaji nuar' 21,19,2"1;

My invention relates to a'device-for stop pingautos, especially 'on smooth pavementsand in slippery places. :Moreparticularly, it relates to de vices where a 'pivotally" sup-.

ported member is normally raised, but in case of need may be lowered into direct con tact with the surface over which the vehicle is moving and support a large* part-.off the weight of the vehicle in sliding contact.

with such stop ed. r 1

h ore particularly, my invention. comprises various details set forth in the folsurface until. the vehicle is lowing description, shown in the drawings,

' the-notch"30 andso slip past stop 19. As

and pointed out in the appended, claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, showing one form of my invention:

Fig. 1 isa side View of my device at.

vtached to an auto and Fig. 2is a rear View of the same.

The device comprises a contact member 10, mounted on arms- 11. These arms are pivoted on an axle, as the rear axle of an auto and for example, and extend beyond the axle and carry on their extended ends counterbalancing weights, 12.. In practice these weights are made so thatthe contact member will tend to drop by a force of from five to ten pounds. A cord, 13, is attached to member 10 to draw it up out of contact with the ground or pavement.

Small cable s, 14,.are attached to abracket,

' 15, on the frame o-f'the auto and to the contact member in such a way that they will prevent the member from swinging so far to the rear as to become ineffective.

It will be noted thatthe arms, 11 are of such length that the weight of the auto willbe taken from the wheels onttf the .con-

tact member when the member is swung down. I prefer to form the arms with an offset, as at 16, so that 'when the-member 10 is in perpendicular contacti with the pavement it will still be slightly This makes the ground or in advance of the axle. d

.e vice, and still allows it to be raised without excessive resistance. v v While the cord 13 might be operated in other ways, I refer to lead it, as shown, to a Windlass 1 The operating'ha'ndwheel of the Windlass is notched at 30 toreceive a pawl 18 which is; pivoted inthe notch on the. wheel and 'has a toe/31- which preventsthe pawl from swinging outward farther 1 than the position shown in F 3. This pawl-18 is normally pressed outwardly by lass in, a direction -to lower member 10.

The pawl readily'slips past stop 19 when the Windlass is -Iturned' to raise member 10. When the lowering'of member 10 is' detrigger 20. The'latter hasal curved finger 29 Wind) is adapted to press pawl 18 into long as pressure is continued on trigger 20,

sired, the pawl may be pressed down-below stop 19 by pressing on theupper side ota the end of finger .29.,rests' on :the periphery of the hand wheel, and-'the end of pawl 18- will encounter the finger 2 9 .ateach revolu-' tion in an unwinding direction, which would be counterclockwise as shown in- Fig. 3.

I also show aspiral gear, 21, on the windlass meshing with a spiral gear, 22, on a rod, 2-3. On itsother end the rod,' 23, car-H fries a worm,24, engaging a wormwheel, 25,

to which is:attac'hed a pointer, 26, which is adapted to indicate onan appropriate dial, I

27, the position of .the contact member.

While I have .shownithe device attached to an axleof an auto, it is obvious that it is capable of use with trucks, horse drawn vehicles, and probably many other types of wheeled vehicles which it is desiredto positivcly stop.

Other changes may be. made w-ithin the scope of the. appended claims while retaining some of the adixantages of my invention.

Having'thus fully described my invention, what I'claim is:

1. Ina device of the a contact member approximately the length of the distance between the wheels of a vehicle and pivoted upon the axle of a vehicle, a counterbalance on the other side of the axle partially counterbalancing the weight of the contact member, manually movable means governing the position of the memher, and other means preventing the movement of .the contact member to a position directly beneath the axle.

'2. In a device of-the character described, 8;. I

contact member,- arms pivotally mounted on the axle of a vehicle and carrying the mem ber; means for swinging the member forward of the axle out of contact with the surfface ,oyer which the Vehicle travels vand ,;fo' 1- character described,

allowing the member to drop down into constact witn such surface, there being offsets in said arms whereby the contact member is in perpendicular contact with said surface before it is vertically under the axle, and

means to prevent the movement of the contact member to a position vertically beneatgh the axle.

3. In a device of the character described; a

contact member pivotally mounted on a ve hicle to be swung intoand out of contact.

with" the. surface over ,which the vehicle passes, means governing'the position of the.

conta t member, and an indicator. connected to sai means'and indicating the position of the contact membe'r.-

4. In a device of the character described, a i contact member pivotally mounted on a ve-' for swinging the member upward and allowing it to swing-downward, a Windlass for operating said cord, a diahand'means con-v nected to said windlassifor indicating on thedia'l the action of the indlass and so the position of the contact member. 7

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

EARR EVERETCLQ 

